US Patent Issued to Canon on Oct. 20 for "Image capture apparatus and control method with sight line detection" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,923, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image capture apparatus and control method with sight line detection" was invented by Tatsuya Ehira (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capture apparatus includes an imaging unit, a processing unit that performs predetermined processing for an object in an image captured by the imaging unit, a sight line detection unit that detects a sight line position of a user, a first operation unit that issues a shooting instruction, a second operation unit different from the first operation unit, and a control unit that performs control to execute the predetermine...